Project Lazarus: A Project of Community Care of North Carolina

The issue of chronic pain represents a complex interaction between biological, psychological and social variables. While prescription painkillers, especially opioids, can be used effectively in the treatment of chronic pain, when used incorrectly they can be deadly. Epidemic levels of unintentional deaths by poisoning, particularly from opioids, are having a profound effect across the United States, and even more so in North Carolina’s communities, where death rates exceed the national average.

Community Care of North Carolina has launched Project Lazarus, designed to improve the medical care received by chronic pain patients, and in the process, to reduce the misuse, abuse and overdose from opioid medications.